The Andhra Pradesh Transmission Corporation (A P Transco) on Thursday, referring to the incident of an outage of various power units in the state, said that efforts were on to restore normalcy.
The A P Transco pointed out that due to the outage on March 9th, there was a failure in generating about 1420 MWs of power. 1100 MWs power supply was restored on the same night at the Kakatiya unit (500 MWs), the KTPS unit (120 MWs), the Konaseema unit (280 MWs) and the RTPP unit (200 MWs). The A P Transco further pointed out that one more unit of 100 MWs at Lanco was restored on Thursday. The balance units of Lanco (140 MWs), KTPS (60 MWs) and merchant power plant (160 MWs) are expected to be restored shortly, it said.
The corporation stated that despite the loss of 1420 MWs (34 MUs) generation, APDISCOMS supplied 254.9 MUs on March 9th, which is the highest record of energy supplied in the state.
The APDISCOMS is said to have met a demand of 11068 MWs on March 9th, which is higher than the power supplies made on March 8th. This, it said, was possible because the state had procured 1000 MWs power from other states, and had increased hydro-generation.
The state government has permitted APDISCOMS to procure RLNG to increase the power generation at gas power stations. The RLNG supplies are expected to commence in the next few days.
The outage of the units on the cited date was due to technical snags in the machines. The government and the power utilities have taken all possible measures to provide reliable power supply to the consumers, the A P Transco stated.